Drizly

He ran into me at two different events that I was at, and after the second time, I was like, "Yeah, I should go to the store and just kind of see how they use it," in his shop on Newbury Street.

Um, this is, um, you know, this story about Drizly, which is an app for liquor delivery, um, was an entrepreneur emailing me and just, I think around the time that they were kind of doing, like, their initial test deliveries, so, like, they were kind of ready for some publicity.

It was something you could actually use.

Um, there's kind of an interesting, like, he's doing two startups at the same time, which is he had to create, like, an ID checking app so the people delivering could check IDs at your front door, um, 'cause some people who are underage might try to use his app.

Yet another Harvard alum, George Colony.

And so, like, I just went over and did a, you know, sit down audio interview with him about kind of what's changed in the tech world in 30 years.

Um, there's the Drizly story.

This is another kind of startup from people who are in their 20s called Jump Shell, and it's...

It was...

You know, Drizly was my, the app on my phone.

I could have a, a case of wine delivered to my house within, my apartment within 30 minutes.

And so it, it was a really hard time for people, and, and we're still grappling with that.

The real question will be how they do as part of Uber Eats.

Uh, you may recall a few years ago Uber bought Drizly, which was that alcohol delivery service-

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... for 1.1 billion.

That was in 2021.

They integrated that with Uber Eats, ended up shutting down the entire Drizly business and the brand two years ago.

All those people lost their jobs.

So 100, um, what is it? 180 people I think work at EzCater in Massachusetts.

So they were both, you know, the content side, as well as a platform for the drinks industry.

And then later on, I went to develop a drip, uh, with Drizly.

I developed a data and insights program for them.

They really talked about how consumers were using that platform, which You know, the platform was the largest alcohol delivery platform in the United States before it was acquired by Uber for a billion dollars.